La Roncais is an Italian winery, situated in Friuli, and crated to make wine to the highest standards, in the best local tradition. Our premium quality wines are unique, territory-specific and destined for the palates of the world’s most discriminating wine-lovers. The estate can call on the experience of three generations of Friulian winemakers and a local oenological heritage that respects tradition while looking to the future.

Just twenty-two hectares of superb vineyards set in the gentle hills of the Colli Orientali del Friuli, one of Italy’s most prestigious DOC zones, produced La Roncaia’s rare and much admired wines. Our overriding principal is the unhurried pursuit of quality, not quantity.

Today, La Roncaia is a model winery, making viticultural masterpieces for knowledgeable public.

The vineyards of La Roncaia are crucially important. It is here, in the Colli Orientali del Friuli near Nimis, Ramandolo and Attimis, that the vocation of the territory and the skill of the grower meet with stunning results. It is in the vineyards that the quality of the wine is decided, above all by insisting on low yields per hectare, obtained by rigorous thinning on flowering and again when the fruit colors, so that the best of the wine is concentrated in a few, magnificent bunches.

We have selected nine varieties that find ideal conditions for producing first-quality fruit at La Roncaia. They are Refosco dal Peduncolo Rosso, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet France, Merlot, Jazzelenghe, Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, and of course Ramandolo and Picolit. The plants are the result of long, accurate clonal selection and careful, even loving, vineyard management. We are truly proud of the results our commitment has obtained.

Close to the vineyards, at Gerney near Nimis, are the La Roncaia cellars. A secret place with an air of magic, the cellar is where age-old techniques and modern technology marry to make wines of quality. Winemaking here is a calm, carefully pondered activity and excellence is the only goal. The fruit, painstakingly selected from the moment it is harvested, ferments in temperature-controlled vats of French oak, macerating very slowly, so that every aroma, every fragrance and every flavour-enhancing element is extracted. Here, the wine ages in the Cellars while five hundred oak barriques enhance their body with delicious wood derived aromas.

The entire process is executed with precision and indeed, an almost religious reverence. For quality is born in the vineyard but raised in the cellars.

La Roncaia lies in the hill country in the north-west sector of the Golli Orientali del Friuili DOC zone, one of Italy’s foremost territories for the production of characterful reds, elegant whites aand rare gems such as the much sought-after Ramandolo and Picolit dessert wines. At La Roncaia, the winemaking heritage has ancient roots, nurtured over the years with skill and sagacity .

The estate’s vineyards lie around Nimis, Attimis and Ramandolo, three villages in the neat hills of Friuli that were formed at least three hundred and fifty millions years ago, when the plains of Friuli lay under the sea and the Alps rose up fro the shore. Over the millennia, layers of detritus, sand and clay gathered, forming the gentlyrolling hills when the sea withdrew. Sandstone alternates with marl, deposits of calacareous clay also known as ponca, to create ideal terrain for the cultivation of the grapeand the climate, too, is perferct, ventialated by southern breezes and protected to the north by the Alps. It is here that the object of our passion – the La Roncaia wines–are laid out in neat rows.

There is only one guiding principle at La Roncaia – quality. From clonal selection, to the patient tending of the plants, the rigorously manual harvest and careful vinification of the fruit, every facet of wine making activity aims to the achieve perfection. The economic implications of this approach are secondary. At La Ronncaia, it is results that count. That is the philosophy driving the estate and the wine makers who now offer you the fruits of their labors. Leading the group is the Hungarian oenologist, Fibor Gal, an influential authority in the contemporary world of wine. After 10 years in Juscany, he is now inspiring the successes of the team at La Roncaia. Passion comes from people, and the land is their ally.